The Harvard Law Review Forum is the online companion to the print journal. It hosts scholarly discussion of our print content and timely reactions to recent developments. The Forum publishes Responses, Essays, Commentaries, and Book Reviews and gladly accepts submissions for consideration.
Response to Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and Title VI: A Guide for the Perplexed
Vol. 139 No. 2 After the attack on Israel of October 7, 2023, a new protest movement erupted on America’s campuses. Unlike the protests of previous decades, these...
Vol. 139 No. 2 The United States government now gives an extraordinary amount of money to colleges and universities. If it threatens to withhold some of that money, it might be able to achieve important and legitimate goals. It can also create serious risks to educational institutions, perhaps even existential risks, and it might be able to use its power to move institutions in its politically preferred directions.
Vol. 139 No. 1 Professor Richard Re’s Foreword pursues a comparison between the Warren Court and the current Court in the hope that “[s]eeing the similarities between these...
Vol. 139 No. 1 The past eighteen months have seen an unprecedented wave of claims by public officials and private plaintiffs that universities are violating their legal obligations...
Vol. 138 No. 7 In his important article, Determining Rights, Professor Jud Campbell correctly observes that “[t]wo central problems in rights jurisprudence are figuring out who should make” “specifications” about what a right “demands in particular situations” and “how to make them.”
Vol. 138 No. 7 Prisons and jails are “total institutions.” Incarcerated people, to a large extent, depend on correctional agencies for their basic welfare and have limited power to resist harmful conditions and practices
Vol. 138 No. 7 In Waste, Property, and Useless Things, Professor Meredith Render takes aim at an important social problem — the voluminous (and often hazardous) waste produced by our seemingly insatiable consumption of the latest electronic gadgets. This phenomenon is part of a much larger solid-waste problem that human beings need to address if we are to achieve a more sustainable future for our species and our planet.
Response to Structural Logics of Presidential Disqualification
Vol. 138 No. 6 Trump v. Anderson and Trump v. United States were two momentous decisions in a momentous Supreme Court term. Sharing then-former — and now current — President Trump as...
Response to Federal Tort Liability After Egbert v. Boule: The Case for Restoring the Officer Suit at Common Law
Vol. 138 No. 5 In the decade after Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the Supreme Court twice recognized implied causes of action...
Vol. 138 No. 5 On March 3, 2025, the Harvard Law Review hosted Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Kevin Newsom, Alana Frederick, and Thomas Nielsen (HLR '24) for...
